The first book I choose for this exercise is called “Lucidum Perspectivae Speculum” from the post “Greetings_67”. The reason being the similarities in physical characteristics. At first sight it seems that both books have the same dimensions. They are rather large in length and width. In terms of thickness, by taking a closer look one…
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Connections_81
To the book: Les dix livres de vitruve. Corriges et traduits nouvellement en François, avec des Notes et des Figures Hi, I found your book because it is the only one containing the name “Vitruv”, besides of my own book. After reading your text, I see that some similarities between our books would be that…
Xenotheka_81
For my first try at working with Alice and the Xenotheka library I immediately choose “architecture” as the topic of conversation. At first, I was not quite sure, what keywords to type into the research engine. Then I figured, why not to start with the title of my book “Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae”. To be honest,…
Xenotheka_81
The first thing that came to my mind to search for in Alice’s brains, was of course the name of my book itself: Exercitationes Vitruvianae. This was quite unpleasant because Alice found zero matches within the Xenotheka library. After some research and trying different words, I found out that with adding just one letter, Alice…
Argument_81
The title of the book is “Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae”. It was published in the year 1739 and was written in Latin. The title does not reveal in depth what the content is going to be about, but we know that it has something to do with the exercises of Vitruvius the first. There is also…
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Greetings_81
Giovanni Poleni – “Exercitationes Vitruvianae” These are the digital versions of the two pages I chose. I liked how the author divided the different paragraphs of the first page and the second page I chose because of the big “I” on the left side of the page. It reminded me of a scene in a…
Greetings_81
The reasons why I chose these two pages are the beautiful initials which I immediately connect to old books, the detailed drawing at the top of page 141 and the interesting concept and explanation on how it is constructed on page 277. The handmade sheets are glued and stitched together again by hand and bound…